The ladybug that slipped into your home to stay warm for winter is no lady and no bug.

A new mossy stick insect was spotted flaunting its figure in the moist, mossy Chocó forests of northwestern Ecuador. The new ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

Insect bites can be hard to decipher — even for experts. But identifying common insect bites with pictures makes it a little ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Mr Warburton said instances of photographers taking the first ever images of live insects was becoming surprisingly commonplace because of a revolution taking place in entomology. The rise of ...

Sleeping cuckoos, by Yorkshire-based Luke Chambers, has won this year's Royal Entomological Society Insect Week photography competition. Chambers' photo shows two cuckoo bees resting on a blade of ...

Insect Week runs from 19 to 25 June and you can find out more details or enter the new photographic competition on their website. This is a selection of the pictures that caught the judges' eye.